There is one key that is absolutely essential to achieving your dreams: aligning your values with God’s values. This doesn’t mean becoming religious. In fact, in many ways religion is opposed to morality. Take for example, people who think that killing abortion doctors is serving God. God is the Author of Life, so taking a life is not a godly act.

Aligning your values with God’s values means getting to know God. The best way to get to know God is the same way you get to know any person: spend time with Him. I know that at first it can feel like you’re talking to your imaginary friend. That’s why it’s also really important to include daily Bible reading. In the Bible, you will get to know God through the names He calls Himself:

He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, obeying His commands and keeping all His decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you[1].”

You will also get to know God through the things He did. For example, there is no person in recorded scripture that Jesus refused to heal—no one!

But so much better than me simply telling you this is for you to experience it for yourself. You may think that you know what love looks and feels like, but to experience that infinite, unconditional love is something that cannot be described. Love that left the comforts and delights of Heaven to endure the hardships and indignities of human existence to rescue you. It is unfathomable, but nevertheless real.

Have you ever contemplated the miracle of your own birth? Most people have not, but it truly is a miracle. The chances of you being born alive on the precise day and time, to the parents you have, are only 1 in 400,000,000,000. Just by being born, you’ve already won the great cosmic lottery. And that number is far greater if you were born after 1973, when abortion became legal and widely available in the US. Which, is another way that you are a miracle: if you were born in the US—even to a poor family—you’re far more fortunate than the vast majority of people in the world.

Some people would have us think that we are just an accident of cosmic dust, chemicals, and lightning. But the truth is that there are no accidents.

Listen to Me, descendants of Jacob, all you who remain in Israel. I have cared for you since you were born. Yes, I carried you before you were born[2].

I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations[3].”

Yes, these verses were written to specific people, but the Bible has many layers of meaning, and often things said to specific people turn out to be instructive for all of us. The rabbis say that coincidence is not a Kosher word. In other words: there are no coincidences, no accidents.

If you don’t already have a relationship with God, hear His invitation today: He loves you. He wants you to know that infinite and intimate love. He wants to give you the life of your dreams—a life beyond what you’ve ever even allowed yourself to dream.

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[1] Exodus 15:26, emphasis mine.

[2] Isaiah 46:3, emphasis mine.

[3] Jeremiah 1:5, emphasis mine.